Sentence examples for sane alternative from inspiring English sources

"We didn't want to live in Queens, couldn't afford the big island of Manhattan, and we saw an article in New York magazine describing Brooklyn as the sane alternative," Mr. Cusack said.

The Republican candidate, the television performer and businessman Donald J. Trump, is not only the strangest duck to have won a major-party nomination but is so uniquely unfit to hold office that the strongest unwritten plank in the platform of his Democratic opponent, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is that she offers a sane alternative.

Bill Kristol, the ever-optimistic editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, has been trying to recruit a sane alternative to Donald Trump.

1. Trump loses the Republican primary to a relatively sane alternative, i.e. not Ted Cruz or one of the other extremist (but unlikely-to-win) choices.

The initiative was sponsored by a Colorado group called Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic, formed after the Columbine incident.

On a year's leave from his state job, he serves as director of political affairs for a new statewide organization, Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic, or SAFE, and is registered with the state as a lobbyist.

Arnie Grossman, a leader of a Colorado group called Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic in Colorado, which is pushing for the ballot initiative, said: "We're at ground zero of the gun debate.

Residents of the district received letters opposing the measure from the National Rifle Association and door-to-door pleas from members of a grass-roots group, Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic.

"We were pretty confident about the outcome, but it would have been very hurtful if the court had not ruled our way," said Tom Mauser, political director for the group -- Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic, or SAFE -- that is sponsoring the ballot initiative.

Tom Mauser, a state transportation official who became a lobbyist for the Sane Alternatives group after his son, Daniel, was killed in the Columbine shootings, said the defeat today would not deter the group's efforts in the Republican-controlled Leginlature or in pushing for a ballot initiative.

My dream is that if these ventures stay small and work together, we will have the professionalism that will allow us to offer a real and substantial, but saner, alternative to supermarkets without becoming like them.